Lead People Partner – Technology

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🌐 Nigeria, United Kingdom – Remote

🇳🇬 Nigeria – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👥 People Operations

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M-KOPA

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💳 Fintech

Healthcare • Logistics • Fintech

M-KOPA is a fintech platform founded in 2011 that provides digital financial services to underbanked consumers across Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, and Ghana. The company leverages data and IoT technology to enable digital micropayments, facilitating access to essential products and services such as smartphones, electric motorcycles, solar power systems, digital loans, and health insurance. With over $1 billion in credit extended to 3 million customers, M-KOPA is dedicated to making financing accessible for everyday essentials.

📋 Description

• Own the people agenda for M-KOPA’s Technology organisation • Partner with the CTO and leadership team across Engineering, Data, Analytics, IT and Security • Align people strategy with roadmap execution and organisational evolution • Hold overall accountability for people partnering across Technology and Product • Lead workforce planning, levelling and team transformation • Coach, develop and set direction for one Senior People Partner • Use people analytics to inform decisions on capability, attrition and cost • Improve performance, engagement and team dynamics in distributed, asynchronous, multi-country teams • Own senior and sensitive employee-relations cases • Report to the People Director • Support M-KOPA’s mission of financial inclusion through its financing model

🎯 Requirements

• Senior HR experience partnering with engineering organisations in a scaling technology or fintech business • Experience leading or formally coaching HR business partners • Proven organisational design experience, including levelling, spans and layers, and function redesign • Strategic and operational range, from long-term organisational strategy to team-level work • Experience supporting cross-cultural teams across multiple regions • Strong business acumen and ability to translate people priorities into business outcomes at leadership level • Ability to operate with autonomy at C-level • Employee relations judgement across more than one jurisdiction • UK/Europe employment law exposure is useful but not essential • Must complete pre-employment background checks if selected

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional development and coaching partnerships • Family-friendly policies • Flexible working arrangements • Well-being support • Career growth opportunities • Direct exposure to the CTO and CPO with influence over leadership-level people decisions • Diverse development programs • On-the-job training • Remote work arrangement